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| Europe: George I of England dies and is succeeded by his son who will rule for 43 years, but will be manipulated by his wife, Caroline, and his ministers. | |||||||||||
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March 1727
March 15 Etienne de Etienne Perier replaces Bienville as Governor. |
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August 1727
August The Ursuline nuns and "casket girls" arrive in New Orleans. One of the nuns is French born artist Marie Madeline Hachard. A plan at this time shows St. Ann extending beyond the city and turning diagonally to the old portage road. There is also a straight path from Dumaine. |
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December 1727
December 22 Sr. Pierre Baron arrives to study the natural sciences of the new colony, but by 1730 he has become the Chief Engineer. |
| The nuns are given property down river from the city in St. Bernard Parish. The nuns will sell it to Guy Soniat Dufossat circa 1778 and it is sold by the Dufossat Family to Pierre Lacoste in 1796. Seized by British force, December 1814; U.S. forces under General John Coffee routed British in a counterattack. The Lacoste Plantation becomes Villere property in 1856. | In 1727 a building called the Government House is constructed at the corner of Conde and St. Ann where the Lower Pontalba building now stands. The two story colombage structure has seven rooms and a large yard with out-buildings for hens, pigeons, a large kitchen, etc. that stretches along Conde (Chartres). Just down river on Conde an observatory is built. | Bienville has been begging the crown to send some wives for his men who are running in the woods after Indian squaws. At first Louis XIV scours the streets of Paris and houses of correction for women. The second round of women or ŒCasquette Girls are sent from Paris with housewifely skills and a small case of necessities for starting their new life. | 1727 marks the beginning of attempts to build a levee system on the Mississippi River. |
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